Robert Pozen
Robert Pozen
Robert Charles Pozenis an American financial executive with a strong interest in public policy. He is the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, the oldest mutual fund company in the United States. He is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
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We need to treat lower income workers a little better in Social Security.
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Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
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You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
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I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
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We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
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Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.
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I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.
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If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.
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We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.